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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

origodb.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Asthon Tate

Robert Friberg et al

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

1979

2009

under the name LiveDB

2018

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role based authorization

Role-based access control

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